one targeted. there were defense contractors, some think tanks in d.c. we don t know the other organizations. only other than the dnc targeted. it seemed that it was a sort of broad targeting and i guess really truly a phishing exercise to see what they could get. did they get in? we re told by the dnc that there s no evidence that the hackers did get in. that anything was accessed. we were told that the russians were all over the democratic systems. they were in jon podesta s inbox, too. we re told by folks that they don t believe they were hacked successfully on this occasion. we re not quite sure what the officials at the dnc had the wherewithal to not click on the link or whether they might have clicked on it but then maybe the anti-virus or security software kicked in. we re not sure.
we doesn t have the full context. let s give him an opportunity to why he tweeted or retweeted. do you think he should have done that is what i m asking. it s not for me to say. of course it is. you re the campaign manager. you re twisting yourself into all kinds of shapes to defend the president and the campaign on all diven levels. defend him on this one. why was it okay to have that kind of communication with wikileaks, known hostile nonstate actor often, in this case, embedded by russia? i don t know when mike pompeo made that statement about wikileaks. my guess is that since he has only been head of the state and this occurred in october, i don t know if we knew in october that wikileaks had that same type of notion behind them. maybe he did. maybe he didn t. i don t think it s fair to say that looking back a year ago that we would have known what wikileaks was about. wikileaks has been widely reported on every major media outlet for their ability to delineate information,
particularly the podesta e-mails. delineate? they stole them. what word is that? they had them. they gave them out and nobody ever said that the information they gave out was false. they stole the guy s e-mails. it s not whether or not they falsified the e-mails. i know there was some political fallout about that. they stole them. not delineate them. did you ever say you delineated my car? they stole the e-mails. i have no idea how they got the e-mails. it s not fair for you to say how they got them. we think they stole them. you re not a cyber security expert, neither am i. you don t have to be one. read what the intelligence community said. which intelligence community said they stole jon podesta s e-mails? if you believe that wikileaks had nothing to do with it. i give them no cover. mainstream media covering wikileaks throughout the campaign for the release of those e-mails.
up and ask wikileaks to chris, let me answer this. when i was the campaign manager for the trump presidential campaign, we never hired an opposition researcher ever, not to do opposition research on our primary opponents or hillary clinton. hillary clinton can t say the same thing. sure she can. she can do it the same way you can, because they were trying to put together a pro trump political action committee, and he was asking for help. it s the same thing that all campaigns do. it s an attorney that works for a firm and the firm hires so-and-so, that s what you do to keep your hands clean. alexander nicks is not a former spy but he s reaching out to wikileaks for help. it s a dirty business. the hillary clinton campaign
this week marked a breakthru in the russia investigation. the daily beast reporting the digital shop approached julian assange about accessing documents stolen. the trump did not approach clinton and ask her to give them the property. no. they asked a third party for what would be stolen from clinton. trump s digital shop made this request as we know during a campaign when russian hackers stole e-mails from the clinton campaign and assange s wikileaks distributed that. every sentence i just reported is undisputed. assange does not dispute the trump approach. the campaign does not dispute the approach. the criminal theft of jon podesta s e-mails is not disputed. we ve all seen them. it is remarkable there s not